After being viciously murdered, Susan Linden is reborn fully grown as theBlack Orchid, a hybrid of plant and human, destined to avenge her own death.Now, as this demigoddess attempts to reconcile human memory and botanicalorigins, she must untangle the webs of deception and secrets that led to herdeath. Beginning in the cold streets of a heartless metropolis and ending in theAmazon rainforest, this book takes the reader on a journey through secrets,suffering and... More Description

After being viciously murdered, Susan Linden is reborn fully grown as theBlack Orchid, a hybrid of plant and human, destined to avenge her own death.Now, as this demigoddess attempts to reconcile human memory and botanicalorigins, she must untangle the webs of deception and secrets that led to herdeath. Beginning in the cold streets of a heartless metropolis and ending in theAmazon rainforest, this book takes the reader on a journey through secrets,suffering and self-rediscovery.

Before introducing the modern version of The Sandman, Neil Gaimanwrote this dark tale that reinvented a strange DC Comics super hero in theVertigo mold. Featuring spectacular art by Gaiman's frequent collaborator, DaveMcKean, Black Orchid is now collected in a deluxe tradepaperback.

Neil Gaiman was born in Portchester, England on November 10, 1960. He worked as a journalist and freelance writer for a time, before deciding to try his hand at comic books. Some of his work has appeared in publications such as Time Out, The Sunday Times, Punch, and The Observer. His first comic endeavor was the graphic novel series The Sandman. The series has won every major industry award including nine Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, three Harvey Awards, and the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story, making it the first comic ever to win a literary award.

He writes both children and adult books. His adult books include The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which won a British National Book Awards, and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel for 2014; Stardust, which won the Mythopoeic Award as best novel for adults in 1999; American Gods, which won the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, SFX, and Locus awards; Anansi Boys; Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances; and The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction, which is a New York Times Bestseller. His children's books include The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish; Coraline, which won the Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla, the BSFA, the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Bram Stoker awards; The Wolves in the Walls; Odd and the Frost Giants; The Graveyard Book, which won the Newbery Award in 2009 and The Sandman: Overture which won the 2016 Hugo Awards Best Graphic Story.

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